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The Employment Equity Act designates four groups as the beneficiaries of employment equity: [1]. Women; People with disabilities; Aboriginal peoples, a category consisting of Status Indians, Non-status Indians, Métis (people of mixed Indigenous-French ancestry in western Canada), and Inuit (the Indigenous people of the Arctic).
As part of the Constitution of Canada, the section prohibits certain forms of discrimination perpetrated by the governments of Canada with the exception of ameliorative programs (e.g. employment equity). Rights under section 15 include racial equality, sexual equality, mental disability, and physical disability.
The Abella commission developed the idea of employment equity and inspired the federal Employment Equity Act, [1] which was passed in 1986 by the 33rd Canadian Parliament under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. [6] The report was grounded in the idea, expressed among other places in the American Supreme Court decision Griggs v.
Certain Canadian jurisdictions have pay equity legislation while others do not, hence the necessity of distinguishing between pay equity and pay equality in Canadian usage. For example, in Ontario, pay equality is guaranteed through the Ontario Employment Standards Act [58] while pay equity is guaranteed through the Ontario Pay Equity Act. [59]
Equal Remuneration Act, 1976 - Guarantees equal pay for equal work to men and women. Indian Penal Code , 1860 (Section 153 A) - Criminalises the use of language that promotes discrimination or violence against people on the basis of race, caste, sex, place of birth, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other category.
Other laws with disability provisions include section 6 of the Canada Evidence Act, which regulates evidence-gathering involving persons with mental and physical disabilities, [71] and the Employment Equity Act, which requires private and public sector employers under federal jurisdiction to increase representation of persons with disabilities ...
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Law v Canada (Minister of Employment and Immigration), [1999] 1 SCR 497 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision on section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The ruling is notable because the court created the Law test, a significant new tool that has since been used by Canadian courts for determining the validity of ...